Anstead, Nick 
ORCID: 0000-0002-1090-5271 and Chadwick, Andrew
(2007)
Parties, election campaigning and the Internet: toward a comparative institutional approach.
Politics and international relations working paper (no.5).
New Political Communication Unit, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK.
Abstract
This paper argues that a comparative approach to analysing the relationship between technology and political institutions has the potential to offer renewed understanding of the development of the Internet in election campaigning. Taking the different characteristics of political parties and the norms and rules of the electoral environment in the United States and the United Kingdom as an illustration, it suggests that the relationship between technology and political institutions is dialectical. Technologies can reshape institutions, but institutions will mediate eventual outcomes. This approach has the potential to generate a theoretical framework for explaining differences in the impact of the Internet on election campaigning across liberal democracies.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk |
| Additional Information: | © 2007 Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Divisions: | Media and Communications |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) T Technology > T Technology (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Nov 2010 13:32 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 18:49 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/30033 |
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